The Reality behind Duality
It is the personality
of the Lord as united with His divine potency that is designated as His dual
form or dual personality. This potency of the Lord is ever united with Him and
it is due to this potency that the Lord is potent and it is for this reason
that He is ever present in his dual form. But this dual form of His is not like
a pair of individuals or objects existing at one and the same place,
indifferent to and entirely independent of each other. Though essentially one,
the two forms are manifested independently only to introduce His charming Lila.
If we reject the one, the other will be altogether untraceable.
Just as duality
always exists in the concept of a substance and its potency, a category and its
cognizability, a substantive and its adjuncts, a word and its meaning, the sun
and its effulgence, fire and its burning capacity, so there is duality in
Brahma. Perpetually two (not only in the relative plane but in reality too),
they are eternally one; and eternally one, they are perpetually two;
perpetually apart, they are eternally identical; and eternally identical, they
are perpetually apart. They are always two in one and perpetually one in two.
Brahma which
constitutes the Supreme Reality transcends all and yet enters all as their
cause. It is through Brahma as the Cause of all that we get a clue to the
transcendent Reality and the transcendent Reality, again, is the ground of that
which enters all as their cause. Really speaking, the non-dual and integral,
substance of Brahma embraces both these aspects. That Ultimate and Supreme
Reality is one without a second, entirely beyond time and space and above all
states and transformation absolutely unlimited and consisting of Truth,
Consciousness and Bliss; and again it is that Reality which is revealing Its
enrapturing and absolute existence consisting of Truth, Consciousness and Bliss
through all space and time and through all states and changes. While, on the
one hand, it is absolutely unrelated to and unlike anything perceptible,
comprehensible, describable, thinkable or conceivable, the same indestructible
and absolute Supreme Spirit—which is beyond time, beyond all states and
transformation, beyond the ken of the senses, mind and intellect, all-tranquil
and infinite—is simultaneously ever present at all times and in all space, in
all existences and in all states.
God’s Grace—Your Great Refuge
So long as you feel that you are under an unlucky star
and in deep distress, miserable, shelter less, frustrated and desolate, you
have not availed yourself of the supreme strength of the Lord’s grace. The
moment a man begins to lean on His Grace, his star assumes a lucky aspect; the
clouds of misfortune get dissipated at once. And having got this supreme
anchorage the mind is filled with delight; the feeling of frustration and
desolation vanishes for ever. Can such morbid feelings of despair and
helplessness linger in the mind of one who has taken refuge in the grace of the
Lord?
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